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Broadway legend Chita Rivera has died at age 91.
“It is with immense personal sorrow that I announce the death of the beloved Broadway icon Chita Rivera,” her friend Merle Frimark shared in a statement on Tuesday, January 30, per People. “My dear friend of over 40 years was 91.”
A separate statement from Rivera’s daughter, Lisa Mordente, revealed that Rivera died “after a brief illness.”
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